Mojave's Main Street, 1896

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Photograph of Mojave's Main Street, 1896. At center, a large utility pole can be seen adjacent to a dirt road. The wide dirt road runs at an angle from the foreground at right ot the background at left. On the opposite side of the street, additional utility poles are visible running parallel to the road. Also adjacent to the road, several small buildings and storefronts can be seen. In the background at right, a horse attached to a small carriage can be seen beneath a large building labeled, "...General Merchandise". To the left, a man stands near an open fence. Most of the town was destroyed by a fire in the fall of 1896.

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Title Mojave's Main Street, 1896

Subject Kern County -- General (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Kern (counties), Mojave (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1896

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1896

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7357

Identifier 41239 (accession number), CHS-41239 (call number), CHS-41239 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7497 (legacy record id), chs-m7357 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-7486 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7497

Unique identifier UC123442

Legacy Identifier CHS-41239.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.4 cm × 41.7 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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